Fly Low, Fly Fast: Inside the Reno Air Races
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670884510 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly The high-risk sport of unlimited air racingAin which racers fly wingtip-to-wingtip around towers at high speedsAis extolled with a focus on the 1997 and 1998 Reno Air Races, which are held annually in September and draw as many as 150,000 spectators. In trying to understand why unlimited air racing hasn't caught on like stock-car racing ("Wasn't stock-car racing a redneck thing ?" he has flyers wondering. Gandt's souped-up, jargonized writing is for fans of air racing and warships and lovers of extreme sports, not for the average sports reader. Many accidents are mentioned, including a fatal 1949 crash in which a plan
Rough Alto said Awesome read. This ought to be required reading for all pilots. You get some serious perspective when you see what it means to really push the limits versus getting nosebleed from 60 degree banks in your Cessna back home.. "A real page turner" according to Vince Page. The author's flowing style transforms the statistics, personalities and planes of the Reno Air Races into an easy-to-read novel which can be enjoyed by everyone. The emphasis on the dangers of air racing give the book a Hollywood feel that make it a real page turner.The book concentrates on the Unlimited Class, but gets four stars instead of five for mis-identifying the Questair Venture -- one of the major contenders in the Sport Class -- as an a. "Great story!" according to A Customer. In-the-cockpit action is played out vividly, which only further seats my lifetime quest of owning a P-51D. The book was enjoyable enough that I'm about to read it again. Unfortunately there are a few inexcusable technical mistakes (that only an aviation junky like myself would ever catch) along with a few humorous context errors that confirm the book was only proof-read by a software spell-checker. Still an outstanding read, and I highly recommen
It's a book for aviation buffs, armchair adventurers and anyone fascinated by the passions that drive men and women to test their limits--and risk their lives--in the quest for speed.. With the same vivid reportage of his Bogeys and Bandits --"about as close as you can get (to the cockpit) without arming the ejection seat," said the San Diego Union-Tribune--Gandt traces the history of this exhilarating but often deadly sport. This first-ever insider foray into the world's fastest and most dangerous aviation sport is as thrilling as Ernest Gann's classic Fate Is the Hunter or Tom Wolfe's The Right StuffIn
He lives in Daytona Beach, Florida. Robert Gandt, a former navy pilot and current Delta Airlines captain, is the author of Bogeys and Bandits (Viking and Penguin), Sky Gods, and two other books.